There’s no place like home! Thanks to a generous offer from Meissner’s Auction Service and the Meissner family, BEHOLD! New Lebanon has a large, new home for our 2015 season. The new “BEHOLD! Station & General Store” is located at 438 NY Route...

Caitlin Coad has joined the Behold! New Lebanon team as folkoreist and program director. Caitlin, who brings a wealth of museum and folklore expertise to BNL, is a dynamic addition and will enhance BNL’s storytelling and archiving capabilities with her work. Her...

Behold! New Lebanon’s 2015 season is coming together behind the scenes and in the public eye! First, you’ll notice our brand new website, beholdnewlebanon.org. Soon you will begin receiving exciting news about the organization — new funding sources,...

This article appeared in All Over Albany on September 2, 2014. The Columbia County town of New Lebanon — it’s just across the border with Rensselaer County — is attempting to turn itself into “the nation’s first living museum of...

Country living New Lebanon shows off its rural heritage By Amy Biancolli This article appeared in the Albany Times Union on Wednesday, August 27, 2014. Click here to read it on the Times Union website. Behold! New Lebanon, a communitywide cultural celebration kicking...

This article appeared in the New York Times August 29, 2014 Green Acres, the Place to Be ‘Behold! New Lebanon’ Offers Rural Tourism By PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN NEW LEBANON, N.Y. — Small rural communities are perpetually marketing themselves. Witness the annual Heritage...

BEHOLD! will help out our neighbors during November with a Thanksgiving Food Drive. Won’t you join us? Any non-perishable donations, or grocery store gift cards, can be dropped off at the BEHOLD! store on weekday or Saturday afternoons. Donations will benefit...

On July 18, curious BNL visitors joined several popular tours. BNL’s official photographer, Uli Rose, went along to capture the tours in pictures, and BNL tour guides at work. We hope you will enjoy some photos here, and plan your next weekend visit! &nbsp;...

When it comes to the museum experience, BEHOLD! New Lebanon Founder and President Ruth Abram is a renegade, breaking new ground — again and again. On Saturday, June 4, Ruth spoke to the New Jersey History and Historic Preservation Conference, a gathering of...